NOT! Moments later, we had a total structural failure, and 2 kids devastated because (as Jack put it with his hands dramatically flung to his brow) "our house is just destroyed....waaaaahhhhhhhhh"
So after consoling the little ones who caused the collapse in the first place, we decided to take another approach.
Each kid got a piece of the house and a ginger-person to decorate. I covered them with the icing that was SUPPOSED to keep the house together, and they decorated them.
Well, Jack decorated.
Riley just licked what I stuck on.
Finished products:
And everyone was happy enough, But next year we are doing sugar cookies.
9 comments:
Gingerbread PERSON?!?
I REFUSE to accept political correctness specifically related to gingerbread! Besides, both works of art were
Gingerbread MEN! You can tell. So there!
:-)
Ooohhhgah!
Uh...Riley's CLEARLY has an icing-dress on.
Looks like they still had fun! :)
Uhhh then Riley's, ummm, errr, uh needs some counciling...
;-)
It looks deeeelicious!
All's well that ends well!
I'm pretty sure I could never make a gingerbread house....
Than goodness I am not the only one! Tom, Elijah, Mara and I tried making a gingerbread house last year. The same thing happened....the dang thing fell apart. We just weren't clever enough to think of your idea....we threw the whole thing away.
yeah, stick with the cookies. then no tears!
The trick, apparently, is to put the icing on the wall joins, put them together, stick pins in (with big glass heads on so you can find them to remove them) to hold the walls together long enough to glue together - 10-15 minutes - then remove the pins and keep going.
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